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I've tried everything I know and I just can't get SSL working. Any other thoughts on how to see if this is working and how to get a response from port 443 and the SSL?

If you have everything set up and working then the following tests should help:

Telnet to the SSL port (make sure you telnet to the actual IP address that you expect your server to be running on, not 'localhost'), and type anything followed by <CR>. You should immediately get disconnected with no visible response from the server.

In the server's error log you should see something like: 

           
   [error] SSL_accept failed
           
   [error] error:140760F8:SSL routines:SSL23GETCLIENT_HELLO:unknown
          
   protocol

If you get a response from the server, like: 

           
   <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <HTML><HEAD>
              
   <TITLE>400 Bad Request</TITLE>
              
   </HEAD><BODY>
            
   <H1>Bad Request</H1>
             
   Your browser sent a request that
            
   this server could not understand.<P>
            
   Invalid URL in request hello server<P> </BODY></HTML>
              
   Connection closed by foreign host.
         >

Then you're connected to a non-SSL port and this should tell you that the SSL setup is still incorrect.

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